{"id":1487530,"date":"2021-11-01T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1487530"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:14:03","slug":"panthers-winning-formula-run-the-ball-play-good-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1487530","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; winning formula: Run the ball, play good defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/panthers-winning-formula-run-the-ball-play-good-defense\/19956635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/panthers\/2021\/10\/31\/19954637\/media_85fc44c5f19b44eca630b6baf045423c-DMID1-5sqsgussa-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Panthers_Falcons_Football_57174\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Matt Rhule has been preaching for weeks that the Carolina Panthers need to stay committed to running the football and rely on a defense filled with former first- and second-round draft picks to win games. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/panthers-winning-formula-run-the-ball-play-good-defense\/19956635\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/panthers-winning-formula-run-the-ball-play-good-defense\/19956635\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers&#039; winning formula: Run the ball, play good defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Rhule has been preaching for weeks that the Carolina Panthers need to stay committed to running the football and rely on a defense filled with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894525,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487530\/revisions\/1894525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}